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>"This is an unfortunate, ill-conceived war" - yeah, like we went in and killed some people. Oopsy but that's ok cause we're the good guys. Your logic stinks disregarding how bad the other side is.

Sounds like BS. I got me a nice phone and it is not from Apple

>"People who choose trade with China over trade with the US are making statements about values"

Wow. The US trades way more with China then Canada does. What does that say about values. Your statements are hypocrisy at its finest.

>"This is structural, fundamental, been this way forever, will be this way forever." - "been forever" part is true. "Will be" is totally up to Canada.

>"But this idea that we will decouple from the US is not grounded in any reality" - not yet but is should be the goal. Not decoupled in a sense real isolation but making sure that Canada has enough trade partners and can live without trade with the US.

>"Between Chinese values and American values which do we prefer"

You do not have to accept Chinese values to trade with them. And the US themselves does not give a flying fuck about values. They would prop any dictator if it helps to fill pockets. Stop this scaring game.

>"but also compromise and look at the longer term"

In the longer term we should learn to stand on our own and do not put ourselves in the position when the US would be able to strangle us economically.

One can not play the game indefinitely. As life gets worse and worse unwashed masses may actually start thinking or at least have some thinkers develop.

Canada should grow their population to 100-150 millions. this way it will have decent internal market and be more attractive to make trade deal with the rest of the world. Instead it relies on the US which appears to be very bad idea.

You should try programming language X vs language Y, cloud vs on-prem, Framework A vs Framework B, OOP vs Composition etc., etc. HN is as partisan as it gets.

>"something the average consumer has absolutely no control over and no ability to solve"

Of course they do. Grow a new fucking party and vote for it. Better than one half f the population hating the other half. Just what politicians of either branch enjoy.

Maybe there is no magic about the absolute number. How about magic of the debt servicing costs that are paid by Joes and Janes

It did last 3 years in my lawnmower. Well it is gone now since I switched it to electric.

>"remain vulnerable from an energy security perspective" - not while having Russia close by.

I would add energy generation to ICE fuel. This is about 84-86% of total I believe

Accept my apology then

Nothing special. I was educated and lived in a satellite town where nearly everyone was a scientist working in USSR's academy of Science. Became scientist myself then was invited and moved to Canada

You've earned your Bigos today.

I remember back in Siberia, USSR my parents were making bigos often enough when I was a kid. Had no idea it was polish food. We have no Poles in our ancestry

I use both for desktop applications but as an IDE and for debugging in particular Lazarus is behind Delphi.

If policing was really "successful" there will not be a single person not charged with some crime. So fuck that. There has to be a balance. Lots of laws serve anything but "the people"

Nice try

China is not responsible for your fuck-us, you own it

>"To what extent are the Chinese labs being subsidized? Are they real businesses?"

And who gives a flying fuck. I am a "real" business and I count my money. It is not my life goal to prop some fat cats crying crocodile tears. Granted I do not use Chinese models. I use Junie straight from my JetBrain's IDEs that in turn uses Gemini Flash. Very cheap and more than enough for my use.

>"You can say this about literally every product we buy..." - and this is exactly why I am not buying many new things just for the fuck of it

Those are going down the drain. Far below inflation for many many years. Canada I came to and Canada now are 2 completely different countries, former being way better in terms of the American Dream

Instant love

"75,000 new jobs" - they forgot to add that most of those no longer provide livable wage. With the way inflation is going they could soon hire everyone since the real value of the salary for average Shcmoes ever diminishes.

I am Canadian, just in case

>"Essentially conquering all of Iran by ground invasion..." - you have already conquered Korea, Vietnam, etc.

>"gentleman's understanding that neither would use them, and each side careful to not back the other into a corner where they'd have nothing left to lose."

So we'll just grind each other into a halt? And what is the end state? What a BS.

True Scotsman?

I quoted what you said:

>"Regulation doesn't hinder innovation"

There is no "quality" in there. Try something better

>"Regulation doesn't hinder innovation"

General statement that means zilch. Regulation depending on particular conditions can definitely curtail innovation or destroy it completely. Bureaucracy wants to regulate everything including how often we fart.

Frankly the amount of books available from before LLM is staggering. The supply will long outlive me. So why would I buy any AI generated one? That is unless it starts producing something really good. Until that happens I suspect there is no real market for AI books.

Oh and btw amount of human generated crap is also so great that I has long became a problem for me to find good thing in that sea.